The Chatanika and Sondrestrom Radars – a brief history
The Sondrestrom upper atmospheric research facility, located just north of the Arctic Circle near the west coast of Greenland, will soon celebrate 30 yr of operations. The centerpiece of the facility, an incoherent scatter radar, has collected 46 000 h of data on the ionospheric state parameters. Th...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:b299a78962bc4af0badafb98ead14159 2023-05-15T15:02:32+02:00 The Chatanika and Sondrestrom Radars – a brief history M. A. McCready C. J. Heinselman 2013-02-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-4-1-2013 https://doaj.org/article/b299a78962bc4af0badafb98ead14159 EN eng Copernicus Publications http://www.hist-geo-space-sci.net/4/1/2013/hgss-4-1-2013.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/2190-5010 https://doaj.org/toc/2190-5029 doi:10.5194/hgss-4-1-2013 2190-5010 2190-5029 https://doaj.org/article/b299a78962bc4af0badafb98ead14159 History of Geo- and Space Sciences, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2013) Science Q Geology QE1-996.5 Dynamic and structural geology QE500-639.5 Physics QC1-999 Geophysics. Cosmic physics QC801-809 article 2013 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-4-1-2013 2022-12-30T22:54:59Z The Sondrestrom upper atmospheric research facility, located just north of the Arctic Circle near the west coast of Greenland, will soon celebrate 30 yr of operations. The centerpiece of the facility, an incoherent scatter radar, has collected 46 000 h of data on the ionospheric state parameters. This instrument was designed and built to measure the effects of nuclear bombs on radio wave propagation in the South Pacific, but instead was deployed to Alaska to study the effects of auroral structuring on the ionosphere, and was later moved to Greenland to explore the auroral cusp and the dynamics of the polar cap boundary. This is the story of the birth and genesis of the instrument, its travels, and the evolution of its facility. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland Alaska Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Greenland Pacific History of Geo- and Space Sciences 4 1 1 6 |
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The Sondrestrom upper atmospheric research facility, located just north of the Arctic Circle near the west coast of Greenland, will soon celebrate 30 yr of operations. The centerpiece of the facility, an incoherent scatter radar, has collected 46 000 h of data on the ionospheric state parameters. This instrument was designed and built to measure the effects of nuclear bombs on radio wave propagation in the South Pacific, but instead was deployed to Alaska to study the effects of auroral structuring on the ionosphere, and was later moved to Greenland to explore the auroral cusp and the dynamics of the polar cap boundary. This is the story of the birth and genesis of the instrument, its travels, and the evolution of its facility. |
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